[Fedora-packaging] packages which add user accounts: is fedora-usermgmt the way?

Wed Sep 7 17:58:24 UTC 2005

On Wednesday, 07 September 2005 at 12:35, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> rc040203 at freenet.de (Ralf Corsepius) writes:
[...]
> >> * some data in a shared filesystem which shall be read by apache only
> >>   but not by other users -> all affected machines will need the same
> >>   uid/gid for apache
> > To me this is a classical case of a customized network setup. It's the
> > admin's responsibility to synchronize the uids.
> 
> There is no way to see whether an rpm package creates an account or to
> determine the parameters of this account.

What about adding
Provides: username(uid)
Provides: groupname(gid)
or something along these lines?

Regards,
R.

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